Good morning. If you didn't hear, we posted the news just a half hour ago. Leonard Cohen, 78, is going to play Milwaukee for the first time in 38 years this March. So your first order of the day, take note and put the day tickets go on sale on your calendar now.

7:30 p.m. Friday

There's more than one singular sensation in "A Chorus Line," the beloved musical on a national tour and stepping into the Milwaukee Theatre for the first of two performances this weekend. | Jan. 3, 2013»Read Full Article

A well-intentioned but slightly fatigued waiter suggested that we stop with the "Happy New Year" salutations by the end of this week.

On his orders, here's a final toast to 2013. To your good health and enduring happiness. To the best that is yet to come. To a busy weekend of movies, food and theater. | Jan. 3, 2013»Read Full Article

There are so many tragedies, man-made and natural, that sometimes we rely on shorthand to remember them.

For instance, the Dec. 26, 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami, which claimed more than 200,000 lives, is regarded as among the deadliest disasters in recorded history. And although Westerners represented about 1% of its victims, it is remembered by many because of one of its survivors was supermodel Petra Nemcova. | Jan. 3, 2013»Read Full Article

She's the president's fifth or sixth cousin - "depends on how you count." So when she's called to visit Cousin Franklin - that'd be Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States - at his family retreat in Hyde Park, N.Y., Daisy can't help feeling insignificant.

Unfortunately, throughout "Hyde Park on Hudson," the new historical drama with Bill Murray in an Oscar-nomination-magnet of a performance as FDR, it's hard not to share her opinion. | Jan. 3, 2013»Read Full Article

Like fashion, hairstyles, sex, drugs and other things designed to frustrate adults in general and parents in particular, young people use rock 'n' roll to discover identity and fraternity. With roots in basements and garages around the world, it rises from the ground up organically, and as if by common consensus rather than being imposed by corporate tastemakers. | Jan. 3, 2013»Read Full Article

Before we begin looking at all the local music that will happen in 2013 (we do have 361 days for doing just that), Local Beat is taking one final look back at the year's best Wisconsin music - from the vantage point of state bands that made a big impression in 2012.

I reached out to the acts featured in our 10 Bands to Watch list in August, soliciting for their own picks for acts to watch. Here are some favorite albums and songs released by Wisconsin artists in 2012, as selected by musicians in poetic folk group Field Report, avant-garde ensemble Volcano Choir, Americana rock act Trapper Schoepp and the Shades and other noteworthy Wisconsin bands. | Jan. 3, 2013»Read Full Article

The premiere episode of "Made in Milwaukee," the DIY Network home remodeling series featuring Flux Design, in Milwaukee's Riverworks Business Park airs at 10 p.m. Friday.

Flux Design was foundecd by former Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design students Jeremy Shamrowicz and Jesse Meyer. According to the firm's website the pair began "by recydling found lumber and scrap metal and turning it into 'organic' furniture." | Jan. 3, 2013»Read Full Blog Post

Garland is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He was also a rural mail carrier for a decade in western Kentucky, where he was born. In addition to publishing widely in literary journals, he's the author of the poetry collections "The Postal Confessions" and "Hunger Wide as Heaven."| Jan. 3, 2013»Read Full Article(1)

But U2 fans can enjoy the band's concert experience when The Domes' "Music Under Glass" welcomes U2Zoo, a tribute group that has played next to stars ranging from Styx to Kansas. Find out more here.| Jan. 3, 2013»Read Full Blog Post